There has to be some kind of shared "desired state," that L and R agree on, to bridge any kind of divide.
What is that desired state?
At the level of, "I want a safe, cost-effective, convenient, free society," I don't think anybody disagrees.
The problem is those words don't all mean the same...
I think the theory would be, that the thing hanging under the balloon (at least the last one) looks like it would absorb laser energy just fine. Here's your smoking hulk back. Only, "Don't worry, we neutered it and made it harmless" isn't a good sell.
A / B Fallacy: if you don't support a megalomaniacal self-serving crook as leader, that means your only other choice is a bean-counting boy scout.
Anti-fallacy: what about "C?" What about being self-serving makes it the only way to be effective?
You remember the Reagan-era statement from the swamp creature who said, "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you?"
I think the principle here is - just because somebody's out to get you, doesn't mean you're not a crook.
And the NRA, in court, is basically saying...
What is ironic, is that these same people couldn't quit talking about how much nicer Rudy Giuliani cleaned up the city, after decades of Democrat rot. They actually moved away to Texas (!) for a time, to get away from it. So then we get the endless crap about how insufferable Texans are. They...
Remember when Eliot Spitzer (aka "Client #9" of the famed "Emperor's Club") was Attorney General of New York? NY AG has always been a joke of an office. It's the political stepping-stone to Governor, and since Wall Street is located there, it's the Star Wars Bar Scene of legal grand-standing...
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/nra-responds-to-new-york-trial-verdict/?utm_source=newsletter
In the NRA's own words:
"...The six-person jury found that many of the business arrangements in which the NRA entered were appropriate and did not qualify as improper related party...
I Googled myself...and I have nappy hair.
I feel massively lied to. I'm the remainder of the sum of the square root of an unsolvable equation. Or something.